To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Freedom is from within.

What is to give light must endure burning.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Humility is attentive patience.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.